016 Integration Is the Medicine: Awakening Through Intuition & Embodied Healing with Katie McKenna

The WakeUp Protocol

What if spiritual awakening starts by question the way we were taught the world was supposed to be?

For Katie McKenna, a licensed psychotherapist, trauma and eating disorder specialist, and integration guide, that questioning became the doorway.

Raised in the Midwest and educated in Catholic school, she began to look beyond the scripts she inherited: the expectations of how life should look, who she should be, and what it meant to find happiness. That curiosity led her into new ways of seeing, new communities, and ultimately, a deeper relationship with her own truth.

In this episode of The WakeUp Protocol, host Nadja Haldimann sits down with Katie to explore what happens when we begin to peel back the layers of conditioning, and what it means to integrate the new self that emerges.

Together, they explore how to stay connected to wisdom after awakening, how to bring expansion into daily life, and how to honor the parts of ourselves that are still catching up to who we’re becoming.

Katie shares her own journey of healing, from navigating an eating disorder and building a relationship with her intuition, to helping others integrate trauma and return to a sense of embodied wholeness.

Katie offers wisdom on:

✨ Why questioning is the beginning of awakening
✨ What “integration” really means and why it’s essential for healing
✨ How to tell the difference between fear and intuition
✨ Practices to access inner guidance and self-trust
✨ How to ground expansive experiences like psychedelics or Burning Man
✨ The role of embodiment in returning to your true self

This conversation is a reminder that awakening isn’t about transcending your humanity, it’s about embracing it, one question, one truth, and one breath at a time.

Connect with Katie
🌿 Website: mckennacounseling.com
🌿 Instagram: @Katie.mc.kenna

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